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One of the best-known rally cars in the country – Possum Bourne’s ex-World Rally Championship Subaru hillclimb car – will once again be back at Race to the Sky, this time with popular rally star Alister McRae at the wheel.

The Australia-based Scotsman was invited to drive the two-door Subaru WRX STI by long-time rally supporter and Bourne’s former co-driver Craig Vincent of Vantage Motorsport, after the car’s earlier driver, former WRC star Kenneth Eriksson, was not available.

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Michael Collins has secured the 2014/15 Ace Hire South Island Formula Ford Series with a dominant performance at Timaru International Motor Raceway over the weekend. The Christchurch electrical apprentice was fastest qualifier and won all three races from fellow Cantabrian Ryan Yardley.

”This weekend was about to get some points back and we moved from 20th to 13th position in the championship,” said McLaughlin.

After a tough start to the weekend with a retirement due to a technical issue in the first race, McLaughlin fought back in the last two races, climbing four positions in the final race to finish seventh.

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New Zealand’s Nick Cassidy has completed the third and final test with his TOM’s Toyota team ahead of the Japanese F3 Championship that commences in April.

The two-day test at the 3.7km Okayama circuit comprised of three sessions and provided a valuable learning curve for the 20 year old Aucklander with a less familiar track surface, warmer conditions than his previous two tests and a new tyre compound all factors Cassidy and the engineers considered and adapted to, with laps times improving over the two days due to combined running with the Super Formula Series.

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Timaru’s Darren Galbraith along with James Bracefield has won the 2015 Stadium Finance/REPCO Westland Rally held on Saturday. In a highly competitive opening round for the 2015 Mainland Series, Galbraith won the rally on the last stage when fellow competitor Jeff Judd from Christchurch had his suspension arm let go on his Subaru WRX. Judd had a 15 second lead heading into a repeat of the 23 km Ahaura stage 9, where torrential rain made conditions extremely slippery.

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Super Black Racing, the only New Zealand team in the V8 Supercar Championship (V8SC), has today proven they can challenge the front runners with their 19 year old driver, Andre Heimgartner, finishing 8th in the final race of the weekend after qualifying in 7th.

“I’m am so stoked with the result. It was a challenging and long race but I learnt a hell of a lot and couldn’t have asked for a better race really,” said an excited Heimgartner.

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Craig Lowndes fell on his own sword in his bid to become the first centurion of Australian motorsport.

Instead his Red Bull Racing team-mate Jamie Whincup moved into outright second place in all-time wins with 91, passing Holden great Mark Skaife, with an emphatic victory - the second straight year the team has won all three races in Tasmania.

In doing so Whincup assumed the V8 Supercars Championship lead with a piece of good fortune created by Lowndes, overtaking Holden Racing Team’s James Courtney.

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This year’s Dunedin-based Drivesouth Rallyfest has received a huge boost with news that YouTube sensation, Ken Block, will contest the May 8 to 10 event.

The American driver is one of the most recognisable figures in world motorsport, with more than 5.5 million followers on social media, and with over 300 million views of his incredibly successful “Gymkhana” video series.

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